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    KVM: trigger uevents when creating or destroying a VM · 286de8f6
    Claudio Imbrenda authored
    This patch adds a few lines to the KVM common code to fire a
    KOBJ_CHANGE uevent whenever a KVM VM is created or destroyed. The event
    carries five environment variables:
    
    CREATED indicates how many times a new VM has been created. It is
    	useful for example to trigger specific actions when the first
    	VM is started
    COUNT indicates how many VMs are currently active. This can be used for
    	logging or monitoring purposes
    PID has the pid of the KVM process that has been started or stopped.
    	This can be used to perform process-specific tuning.
    STATS_PATH contains the path in debugfs to the directory with all the
    	runtime statistics for this VM. This is useful for performance
    	monitoring and profiling.
    EVENT described the type of event, its value can be either "create" or
    	"destroy"
    
    Specific udev rules can be then set up in userspace to deal with the
    creation or destruction of VMs as needed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarClaudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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